Quotes in October

October 27, 2007
Lache nie über die Dummheit der anderen. Sie ist deine Chance.
(Never laugh at the stupidity of others. It is your chance.)
- Winston Churchill

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert

October 25, 2007
Hoffnung ist ein gutes Frühstück, aber ein schlechtes Abendbrot.
(Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad dinner.)
- Francis Bacon

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein

October 20, 2007
Liebe ist stets der Anfang des Wissens, so wie Feuer der Anfang des Lichtes ist.
(Love is always the beginning of knowledge, just like fire is the beginning of light.)
- Thomas Carlyle

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
- William Arthur Ward

October 19, 2007
Wenn einer keine Angst hat, hat er keine Phantasie.
(If one has no fear, he has no imagination.)
- Erich Kästner

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson

October 18, 2007
Der Unterschied zwischen Gott und den Historikern besteht hauptsächlich darin, daß Gott die Vergangenheit nicht mehr ändern kann.
(The difference between God and historians is that God cannot change the past.)
- Samuel Butler

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw

October 17, 2007
Zeit ist das, was man an der Uhr abliest.
(Time, is what people read on the clock.)
- Albert Einstein

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton


October 16, 2007
Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten.
(A place where has much light is also a place where has much shadow.)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy


October 15, 2007
Glück ist Selbstgenügsamkeit.
(Happiness is self-sufficiency.)
- Aristoteles

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf


October 14, 2007
Zukunft ist die Zeit, in der man die ganze Vergangenheit kennen wird. Solange man die Vergangenheit nur teilweise kennt, lebt man in der Gegenwart.
(Future is the time when one knows the whole past. As long as one is aware of the past partially, he/she lives in the present.)
- Gabriel Laub

Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes

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